November

I went to a witch party and had to dress up.  Yes, that is Kathleen's skirt.

 Ryan was put in the bishopric in September.

 We went to Spokane to visit family for Thanksgiving.  

Kathleen and I made pottery. 

 The boys think the best place to write in their journals is on the counter in the laundry room.

 Leaf time:

 My parents came to visit:

 Kathleen is officially taller than grandma.

 We had a freak snow storm in November:

 Brandon measured 9 inches.

 Kathleen loves to play the piano.  She is pretty cute.

 Handsome:

Cody won first place for a story he wrote for Reflections. 

 Back to Spokane.  Look at these cute kids walking to get hot cocoa.

 The twins:

Does anyone (and I mean anyone) think this is a good idea?  I blame Ryan and his brother Jon for everything naughty that Brandon and Cody do. 

 But Jon is a great uncle to these kids.

 We had a blind soda tasting contest (no, the soda is not blind).

 Brandon fell in love with his new cousin, Ike.

 Thanksgiving:

 Making candy canes:

 We went to watch my sister, Kaylee, in her play.  She was awesome!

 It is always fun watching my cute nephew play basketball.

 Everyone HATES (and I cannot express this enough) HATES my parents driveway.  Everyone, that is, but Brandon.  I found him outside running up and down it like it was the best toy ever.

 Thanksgiving #2:

 We celebrated Ryan's birthday.  I am not totally sure how close you have to get to the candle to win this contest.  

 I love these boys so much.  I just wish cousin Will could have been in this photo.  Then it would have been perfect.

October

October was full of fun.  We decorated our garage for Halloween and lots of people came to see.  We ran out of candy.

We did a lot of science experiments.  

I hosted Bunco and made all the ladies wear witch hats. 

I took the kids to the zoo and it was all decorated for Halloween. 

Brandon finished football. 

 Brandon ran for treasurer at the school (and lost.  I tried to tell him it was a bad idea to get his friends together and run for the same office.  But he thought it would be more fun that way).

 We went to a corn maize.

 Cody finished soccer.

 We carved pumpkins with the Reese family.

 Boys wearing staches:

 Kathleen started basketball.

 The kids had a piano recital (and got to wear costumes).

 Class parties: